make-it-mavis

[make-it-mavis]

Hello again, I’m sorry I keep pestering you! I promise this is my last question for awhile! Just wondering if there was anywhere else I could follow you. Like insta or something? But if you don’t want to share your social media with some stranger on tumbler I totally understand!! Take care! 😊

Not a bother at all!

I honestly mostly stick to tumblr, but my art blog is citrusratz and my personal blog is peppermint-rat. I'm also on insta as citrusratz but I don't post much.

[make-it-mavis]

Hey! I've got some more questions! I'm on a roll lol! Thank you so so much for answering the last one!

This ones more of a what if. But I just got to randomly thinking, what if Litwak kept Turbotime instead of scraping it for parts, and then he went "you know what? This game was a real gem of its time, let's see if I can get it fixed and back up and running." And the game ended up working just fine and he put it BACK in the arcade years later? I read somewhere that if a game cabinet ends up getting plugged back in the characters within it respawn. But they don't remember anything about their lives before getting unplugged. So if it were to happen, Turbo wouldn't remember committing any of his grisly crimes, or even Mavis. Also I wonder how the arcade as a whole would take to the most feared criminal in their history literally coming back from the dead. I just was curious about your outlook. :)

This next question is about Mavis, you kind of alluded in Tightrope that Mavis was presumed dead like Turbo in that conversation with Felix and Ralph. So did she fake her own death to be able to go with him to take over Sugarush? If she did, how did she pull that off?

Thats all I got for today, I'm sorry for the long winded questions! I get to thinking sometimes, then I fall right down into a rabbit hole. I know that the chances of Turbotime ever getting plugged in again are absolutely zero. Litwak more than likely had it scrapped for parts, or just downright had it taken to the junkyard to rot. Which is so heartbreaking to even think about. But I just want him back man! He was such an excellent and formidable villain. Probably the very last great Disney villain, especially in recent years. Their writing has just been so lazy and lackluster recently. Disappointing. (*cough cough*, that sorry excuse of a sequel that is just downright insulting to the first wreck it Ralph movie). He was hands down one of the best parts of the first movie. And of course it doesn't help that I have it down bad for him now thanks to you!! I was terrified of him as a kid, but you somehow managed to make me have the hots for him?! Like HOW?! Thank you for tolerating my rambling lol. It's so good to hear from you again!:)

First off, I will say again, every time I can make someone hot for that little grey bean I gain a year on my life

ANYWAY

1. Huh! I never actually considered that as a possibility. I guess somehow it didn't occur to me to think about how a game being plugged back in would work, but it happens in RBTI. PERSONALLY... I feel like there would not be any reset on the characters' minds, especially if they weren't in the game when it happened. If we're assuming the cabinets have memory storage, unplugging them wouldn't erase that. But maybe having the game boot up again would physically summon Turbo back into Turbo Time, and he'd have a lot to answer for. Unless the actual game's memory unit was replaced, I don't think the characters would have any reason to forget, but even if it was, I think the game would spawn new versions of the characters. So there would be a New Turbo strutting around, but the Old Turbo would still be alive and hiding. Which would do great for his psyche I'm sure.

2. Yup, after Sugar Rush was plugged in and the plan to usurp the throne was concocted, Mavis knew that in order to live her life as Pyrite unquestioned, the arcade would have to believe she was dead. I never fully figured out how she would go about faking her death though. She definitely would not have stuck around long enough after to see Felix mourn.

Thank you for the asks and little thought exercises! Always fun to muse

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I was just rereading some old fics this morning and it unearthed some old feelings that I need to gripe about again - though idk if I ever felt comfortable sharing them on here before a large shift in my social circle

I really resent the seemingly largely accepted idea that writers aren't allowed to be hurt when the people closest to them refuse to read their writing. And I don't mean little blurbs, I mean books that take several years of hard work.

No, no one is obligated to read anyone's work. But you're not wrong to hope that people who claim to care about you would care that you worked so hard on something. Even if the subject matter isn't something they would read independent of you. The point is you wrote it, and that should matter enough.

You spend several years writing a sci-fi book. Your friend doesn't give a shit about sci-fi, but they give a shit about you, so they read it.

Or you finish the book and they treat it like a sci-fi book written by a stranger, and don't read it. Caring that it was written by you does not come into the equation. And they don't have enough faith in your writing skills that they think they could find anything enjoyable about reading it.

How the hell is that not hurtful? How can you say the writer is wrong for being crestfallen when people they love don't put in the effort to love them back, just because it might be kind of boring?

Idk man, support your writer friends. Don't pretend it would take more work for you to read a story than it did for them to write it.

[make-it-mavis]

get yourself a main character whos two primary emotions are "little cunt" and "catatonic with grief"

[make-it-mavis]

Hey, long time no talk!

I have a possibly unusual question;

A lot of your fics are posted directly to tumblr - I've never done that before, and I wanted to ask if there was anything to keep in mind or be aware of when doing so.

The fics are already posted to Ao3, so would it make more sense to simply link them once, or is it reasonable to post each chapter here as well?

You're the only person I could think of with experience in the subject, sorry for bothering you!

Hello old chum!

Well, first off something to be aware of is that if I could do it all again, I wouldn't have posted full fics directly on tumblr. Simply because the Read More sometimes just doesn't work and people are text-walled. I think the long-post coding on here is better now but I just feel like it's good manners to be mindful of such things. Little essays are one thing but full several page fics are another.

In recent years I'm a much bigger fan of linking to AO3. Give the fic title along with important info (fandom, word count, characters involved, content warnings, summary, etc.) then include a short text preview to hook the audience. And then insert the link. That's how I like to do it, anyway!

As for posting a chapter at a time, it's a matter of preference, but I usually prefer it over just making one post. It's just more fun to queue the chapters up and watch them gradually pop up. Plus that way you have a better chance of being seen by more people and drawing readers in. Same format as above but with info about the specific chapters and a link to the first chapter as well.

Making a pinned post with links to your different fics is not a bad idea either.

I do wish that I had stuck with AO3 links for Homesick but also the shortest chapter in that was three words long lmao

Good luck and happy writing!

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Hey! Its me again! How are you doing? I was just re-visiting your work and had a couple questions! What is Turbo and Mavis' accents? I was thinking Mavis' was Southern, but I'm not for sure lol. Also did Turbo ever meet the sprites from Roadblasters? If he did what was that like? I was always curious about that. Thats all the questions I have for now! I hope you're doing good! :)

-boogies in-

Mavis is indeed Southern! Honestly when I listen to Goodbye Earl by The Chicks I can hear her very clearly.

Turbo (I know he has a canon voice but I choose to believe KC was a voice he was putting on), for me, has an American east coast accent. My 1 to 1 voice claim for him is Rocket Raccoon. Very importantly including the high-pitched genuine laughter ("He's gonna wake up tomorrow and he's nOT GONNA KNOW WHERE HIS EYE IS")

I figure he probably met the Roadblasters guys at least once. I think he would have run into them at Tapper's and tried to go over and assert his dominance, but he would get drowned out by the flood of attention the guys from the shiny new game were getting. Which would be like +10 insanity points.

Thanks for the ask!

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Hey I hope you're doing well! I read through all your fics on ao3, and oh my lord your writing is AMAZING!! Like I can't even put into words how unbelievably talented you are! I literally bawled my eyes out through the entirety of homesick, it was so get wrenchingly sad. You tore my heart straight out of my chest! I can tell you put your heart and soul into your work, it really shows in your writing. Like I could almost physically feel in my heart what Mavis was feeling! She is a very strong girl, I could not imagine losing someone I love and then everyone hating me, and being ostracized at the same time I don't think Could live through that. I really admired her for that! I love love LOVE Mavis! Homesick will always have a place in my heart! It was one of the best things I've ever read in all my 22 years of living lol! Please don't ever stop writing you truly have a gift! All your other work with the shit goblins is phenomenal as well! I love them! Oh and one more thing, I am so in love with your Turbo, like I have the hugest crush lmao, I really adore the personality you gave him, and your art work of him has my heart! So sorry for rambling! I tend to do that with things I love, and I LOVE your work! I can't wait to see what else you do in the future!:D Take care! <3

Gggh ghhh hhh ghghh hh fff I just log on to check what's goin on over here and I am SLAMMED with emotion ohhh buddy you're so sweet?? Thank you so much for taking the time to read all my stuff and then send me such a lovely message! It really means the world to me. Seriously warmed my heart and made my day, thank you, you lovely creature <3

[make-it-mavis]

Welcome Home

A Follow-up to Homesick 9910 words, 2 chapters Characters: Turbo, Make-it Mavis Themes: Hurt/Comfort, hopeful ending CW: Depression, suicidal intentions Summary: After getting Roadblasters and his own game unplugged, Turbo's world is rocked off its axis. He spends months completely lost, unsure of his place in the world, unsure of who he is without his game and glory. But, really, the answers are undeniable: He has no place anymore, and he is nobody. There is no point in hiding nothing. But if he is going to reveal himself to the arcade that believes his own crime killed him, he figures his best friend might as well be the first one to know. Even if she could very well kill him herself when she finds out.

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Turbo could not have said how much time had passed since he ruined his own life. Up above, the passing of time was marked by the usual rituals. The arcade opened, the arcade closed. Sprites slept, sprites woke. Weekends were marked by a distinctive boom in business. One could guess the season by observing what time of day the arcade was most crowded. Decor around Devout sprites’ homes and Game Central Station would be a close imitation of whatever Litwak had hung up in the arcade proper for annual holidays. But Turbo could not rely on these signs from his prison under the world. Any glimpses he was granted of the surface were fleeting, separated by long periods of blindness, deafness, and death-like sleep. But time made itself known, all the same. Even an existence as meager as his would not be forgotten by time, nor would it be shown any mercy. Turbo could not see it, but always, he could feel its eyes upon him.

No, he did not know how many days, weeks, or months he had been in the dark. He did know that he had been suspended in zero-gravity long enough for his body strength to waste away, leaving him winded just from pulling himself along the underside of the ground. He knew that he had been lost in silence long enough to hear voices echoing from the deep, blaming him, mocking him for what he had become. He knew that the man he was before had sunk far enough into the distance that he could no longer see him. He could remember his own name. Time had just worn away all memory of what it meant.

There came a point when, for the first time since the incident, Turbo’s situation was about to change. All of his maddening, painful work had finally paid off just enough to free him from the void, so that he could drag himself right into another. In this void, however, he felt different. In the code space of Fix-it Felix Jr., the passage of time no longer seemed like an unending, unknowable road. The end was finally in sight, and he could feel a sweeping pressure inside him, as if he had begun to step on the brake pedal. He knew, with a nauseating mix of fear and relief, that his suffering would soon be over, or at the very least, different. There was just one thing he absolutely had to do first.

He had to see Mavis.

(Read the rest here!)

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So I uhhh realized I have a post-Homesick shitgoblins first reunion fic just. Totally done and sitting in my docs unpublished for. Some ungodly reason

So that’s comin’ today

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Pokes my head back in here to say

Don’t worry guys, I’m doing good. Lots of changes going down lately but I am not absent due to being dead or depressed or anything. I’ve just been caught up in other creative pursuits! 

I don’t think its possible for me to leave these babies behind but if I somehow did I would say something rather than ghost. Thank you for the huge backlog of notes and the nice messages though <3

[make-it-mavis]

How fitting that this was my 1000th post

TEN gotdamn years

[make-it-mavis]

TEN gotdamn years

[make-it-mavis]

-drags myself by my claws out of the steaming tar pit, choking out sludge, inhaling it, choking again, snorting-

Hey guys hows it hangin

[make-it-mavis]

“Well, well, well! What have we here?”

Thinkin about this bitch a lot lately. Clopin from Hunchback has huge Pyrite vibes and I love the Court of Miracles scene for her

“You’re very clever to have found our hideaway. Unfortunately, you won’t live to tell the tale :)”

[make-it-mavis]

Tightrope (Part 2)

Read Part 1 here! TURBUG AU Characters: Make-it Mavis, Turbo/Turbug, Sergeant Calhoun, Fix-it Felix CW: Blood, eye trauma, mild horror Summary:  Make-it Mavis, who has been living under disguise as Pyrite in Sugar Rush for fifteen years, wakes after the cy-bug invasion to find that her life as she knew it is gone. Turbo has been dethroned and is now missing. While avoiding capture herself, Mavis sets out on a mission to find him, which quickly turns into a mission to free him from the colossal, monstrous, insectoid cage he has become trapped in.

Over the course of her life in the game, Mavis often wondered if the Sugar Rush caverns were actually coded with any real purpose in mind. They were dark, cold, and barren, with no roads suggesting that a race track was ever intended to be laid through them. The Devs even seemed to intentionally make it very difficult for anyone to access the tunnels, as any safe entrances were far out of the way, expertly hidden, or both.

Her ponderings usually ended at the same, kind of humorous place, which was that the caverns must have been some kind of weird Easter Egg, like her. But as she understood it, much of the point of Easter Eggs was being rewarded for being clever enough to find them. Where was the reward in miles of empty, creepy tunnels?

But now, Mavis decided that if she was able to find Turbo taking refuge down there, safe and sound, she would never question the worth of the caverns again.

Read the rest of Part 2 here!

[make-it-mavis]

ok it’ll be tomorrow because I’m out of steam BUT it’s just like a couple paragraphs so it’ll be quick.

O yeah you’re getting Tightrope part 2 today too because apparently I had it planned enough in my head for years that I could just bang it out SO

keep an eye out for that later

[make-it-mavis]

O yeah you’re getting Tightrope part 2 today too because apparently I had it planned enough in my head for years that I could just bang it out SO

keep an eye out for that later